IDVD won't accept disc.

Every time I go to burn a DVD from iDVD, it'll pop open the disc drive, and ask me to insert a blank DVD. So, I insert a 4.7 gig, 120 minute video Memorex DVD-R. But, the message "Waiting for device to become ready" will appear, and then it'll pop the DVD-R out. I've tried several blank DVDs, and nothing.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Any idea what I need to do?

Im having the same problem but with fuji film DVD+R. and in the log i get this message
Applications/iDVD.app/Contents/MacOS/iDVD: The function CGSGetIntegerForCStringKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
now anyone want to tell me what the **** this means?

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